Written by

Elisha Anderson and Jim Schaefer

Detroit Free Press staff writers

Paul DeWolf / D.C. Goings/AP

Shaquille Jones

Joei Jordan

Two suspects in the shooting death of a University of Michigan medical student heard their own words used against them in an Ann Arbor courtroom today.

It was dark and quiet in Paul DeWolf’s room in the Phi Rho Sigma house when three young men entered in July, according to recorded statements both men gave to police.

DeWolf, 25, was in bed, his door shut, and he asked who was there.

He couldn’t tell there was somebody pointing a gun at him, Shaquille Jones, 21, told police after his arrest in South Carolina. That interview was played during a joint preliminary examination today in 15th District Court.

Jones and Joei Jordan, 20, have been charged with open murder in connection with DeWolf’s death and also face home invasion charges in connection with break-ins at DeWolf’s fraternity and a house next to it.

Judge Joseph Burke ordered the two to stand trial on all charges today after more than six hours of testimony.

A third suspect in the case, Dajeon Franklin, 21, of Pittsfield Township, who is Jordan’s cousin, has not been charged in the case, and his attorney has said Franklin denied any involvement.

But he was the one with the gun the night DeWolf was killed, Jones and Jordan said.

“I didn’t have anything to do with that boy dying. I was in the room with him. Lights were off. ... I was scared to even move,” Jordan said. “But (DeWolf) turned around, and he grabbed something, and he walked toward my cousin … all I seen was he grabbed for the gun, my cousin snatched the gun back and hit him with the gun. ... The gun went off.”

The three left, and Jordan told police that later Franklin said he hadn’t meant to shoot DeWolf.

“None of this was intentional,” Jordan said during his interview with police.

DeWolf’s family sat in the front row of the courtroom, sometimes wiping tears, other times with their heads bowed. They sometimes had their arms wrapped around one another during the hearing that involved testimony from more than a dozen people, including police, students and a medical examiner.

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Ashley Stasiak, a University of Michigan medical student, testified she went to DeWolf’s frat house when he didn’t show up for work at a hospital on July 24.

“When we opened the door, I saw Paul on the ground lying in a pool of blood,” she said. “I saw a window to my right that was still ajar. And I saw blood all over his sheets.”

His room was unlocked, but the key was in the door, she said.

DeWolf was shot in the neck and was found in his room in the 200 block of North Ingalls.